I guess I would like some insight? Dreams

[TDFlue]

I am protestant I am baptized Methodist to clarify.

I am a very hard working student I am on my last semester in college and if I get all As I’ll graduate in June with a degree in biology I have learning dissabilites and was told children like me don’t go to college but through Gods will and my determination I have made it this far. I have a very difficult test coming up so I’m under a lot of stress. My passion is the ocean I wish to study sharks. Any way I had a dream last night that I have never experienced. Although I never saw her face I somehow knew it is the virgin Mary, the light was to bright to make out. But she spoke and at first I couldn’t hear her, but then she said “because you are mine and faithful to the, shall you be beholden to the sea” it’s a rhyme yeah it’s weird. But even in sleep I felt an overwhelming calm like I have never felt and even now as I study I don’t feel the gutwrentching stress I normally do.
I was just wandering if maybe I’m crazy or does Mary talk to non-catholics??

 

[tawny]

I am protestant I am baptized Methodist to clarify.

I am a very hard working student I am on my last semester in college and if I get all As I’ll graduate in June with a degree in biology I have learning dissabilites and was told children like me don’t go to college but through Gods will and my determination I have made it this far. I have a very difficult test coming up so I’m under a lot of stress. My passion is the ocean I wish to study sharks. Any way I had a dream last night that I have never experienced. Although I never saw her face I somehow knew it is the virgin Mary, the light was to bright to make out. But she spoke and at first I couldn’t hear her, but then she said “because you are mine and faithful to the, shall you be beholden to the sea” it’s a rhyme yeah it’s weird. But even in sleep I felt an overwhelming calm like I have never felt and even now as I study I don’t feel the gutwrentching stress I normally do.
I was just wandering if maybe I’m crazy or does Mary talk to non-catholics??

Welcome to CAF TDFlue.
This is the Prayer Intentions forum. It’s where members request prayers for intentions. You may want to place your post in the Back Fence forum on the Home Page where it is more appropriate for responses. God bless.

 

[MaryT777]

I’d also like to welcome you to the forums and say I hope as Tawny noted above you will repost in the back fence forum!~

Mary.

 

[GEddie]

Dreams are the editing floor of our heads; no more nor less.

ICXC NIKA

 

[Mary_Estelle]

Sounds like a very nice dream. I will pray that you do well in your final classes. Peace

 

[mVitus]

Dreams are the editing floor of our heads; no more nor less.

ICXC NIKA

St. Joseph might disagree, though I wouldn’t attribute the OP’s dream Mary without better knowledge myself.
As for the question of Mary visiting non-Catholics, I’d imagine she would. But I wouldn’t necessarily attribute your dream to her, at least not yet.

 

[NeedImprovement]

No dream interpretations being offered in this post, but perhaps a little prayer perspective which might help the thread fit better in this forum:

One of the titles of our Blessed Mother (the Virgin Mary) is “Star of the Sea.”

According to the Messenger of St. Anthony article Star of the Sea ; by Madeline Pecora Nugent

The name of the Blessed Mother in Hebrew is Miryam which means ‘drop of the sea.’ St. Jerome, in his Latin translation of the Onomasticon by Eusebius of Caesarea, translated the name as Stilla Maris (Drop of the Sea). A later copyist miscopied the translation as Stella Maris (Star of the Sea) and the error persisted probably because Stella Maris is another name for Polaris or the North Star, which has been used for celestial navigation at sea since the earliest times.

. . . It is easy to see how Mary, the mother of Jesus, was seen as a sign of hope and a guiding star for Christians, and especially by the Gentiles. Old Testament Israelites metaphorically referred to the Gentiles as ‘the sea’ (anyone beyond the coasts of Israel). Mary, as Star of the Sea, leads all, including the Gentiles, to Jesus.

St. Anthony frequently used Star of the Sea as a title for the Blessed Mother. One of his most beautiful prayers addresses the Blessed Mother with this title: “We pray you then, our Lady, star of the sea, that you shine upon us when we are buffeted by the raging of the sea. Guide us to harbor, defend our going out with your watchful presence. So may we be found fit to go out safely from this prison, and come joyfully to unending joy. May he grant this, whom you bore in your blessed womb and suckled with your most holy breasts. To him be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. (Sermons for Sundays and Festivals, volume I, p. 178, Edizoni Messaggero Padova).

An english translation of the hymn Ave Maris Stella (which is still in use in the Divine Office today)

Ave Maris Stella

(Hail Star of the Sea)

Hail, O Star of the ocean,
God’s own Mother blest,
Ever sinless Virgin,
Gate of heav’nly rest.

Taking that sweet Ave,
Which from Gabriel came,
Peace confirm within us,
Changing Eva’s name.

Break the sinners’ fetters,
Make our blindness day,
Chase all evils from us,
For all blessings pray.

Show thyself a Mother,
May the Word divine,
Born for us thine Infant,
Hear our prayers through thine.

Virgin all excelling,
Mildest of the mild,
Free from guilt preserve us
Meek and undefiled.

Keep our life all spotless,
Make our way secure
Till we find in Jesus,
Joy for evermore.

Through the highest heaven
To the Almighty Three,
Father, Son and Spirit,
One same glory be. Amen.

 

[NeedImprovement]

. . . I was just wandering if maybe I’m crazy or does Mary talk to non-catholics??

I don’t know about “talking to” , but our Blessed Mother has a tender love for each and every one of her children for whom Christ died - no exceptions.

Another hymn to Our Blessed Mother which includes the title Ocean Star:

**HAIL, QUEEN OF HEAVEN, THE OCEAN STAR **

1. Hail, Queen of heaven, the ocean star,
   Guide of the wanderer here below,
   Thrown on life’s surge, we claim thy care,
   Save us from peril and from woe.
   Mother of Christ, Star of the sea
   Pray for the wanderer, pray for me.
2. O gentle, chaste, and spotless Maid,
   We sinners make our prayers through thee;
   Remind thy Son that He has paid
   The price of our iniquity.
   Virgin most pure, Star of the sea,
   Pray for the sinner, pray for me.
3. Sojourners in this vale of tears,
   Blest advocate, to thee we cry,
   Assuage our sorrows, calm our fears,
   And soothe with hope our misery.
   Refuge in grief, Star of the sea
   Pray for the mourner, pray for me.
4. And while to Him Who reigns above
   In Godhead one, in Persons three,
   The Source of life, of grace, of love,
   Homage we pay on bended knee:
   Do thou, bright Queen, Star of the sea,
   Pray for thy children, pray for me.

*John Lingard, 1851 *

St. Bernard of Clairvaux wrote:

“If the winds of temptation arise; if you are driven upon the rocks of tribulation, look to the star, call on Mary. If you are tossed upon the waves of pride, of ambition, of envy, of rivalry, look to the star, call on Mary. Should anger, or avarice, or fleshly desire violently assail the frail vessel of your soul, look at the star, call on Mary.”

There is arguably no better, no simpler, no more effective way to call on Mary , than by beginning with the words which came to us from God through the Archangel Gabriel and which echoed in St. Elizabeth as she bore John the Baptist in her womb and was filled with the Holy Spirit:

Hail Mary ,full of grace.
The Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women
And blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
Pray for us sinners now,
And at the hour of our death. Amen

 

[Crusaderbear]

Saints (including the Blessed Virgin) visit those by need, not by creed…go with it, good luck in your life endeavor!